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COMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Volume 74, Issue 4, Pages 744-789Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.21887
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- European Research Council [721675]
- FIM (Institute for Mathematical Research) at ETH Zurich
- [MTM201452240-P]
- [MTM2017-85757-P]
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The study focuses on the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the fast diffusion equation in a smooth bounded domain, showing that bounded positive solutions extinguish in a finite time and approach a separate variable solution as they near extinction. Further investigation into the fine asymptotic behavior of the relative error and proof of sharp rates of convergence are conducted, based on an entropy method and the concept of almost-orthogonality.
We investigate the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the fast diffusion equation u(t) = Delta u(m), posed in a smooth bounded domain omega subset of Double-struck capital R-N, in the exponent range m(s) = (N - 2)(+)/(N + 2) < m < 1. It is known that bounded positive solutions extinguish in a finite time T > 0, and also that they approach a separate variable solution u(t, x) similar to (T - t)S1/(1 - m)(x) as t -> T-, where S belongs to the set of solutions to a suitable elliptic problem and depends on the initial datum u(0). It has been shown recently that v(x, t) = u(t, x) (T - t)(-1/(1 - m)) tends to S(x) as t -> T-, uniformly in the relative error norm. Starting from this result, we investigate the fine asymptotic behavior and prove sharp rates of convergence for the relative error. The proof is based on an entropy method relying on an (improved) weighted Poincare inequality, which we show to be true on generic bounded domains. Another essential aspect of the method is the new concept of almost-orthogonality, which can be thought of as a nonlinear analogue of the classical orthogonality condition needed to obtain improved Poincare inequalities and sharp convergence rates for linear flows. (c) 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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